Author's Note: Sirius Black is telling the trio about his time in Azkaban before he is killed by Bellatrix Black Lestrange.
Life in Azkaban
Let me just say, I am grateful to still be alive. I never what to go to that type of place again, as long as I live, because of how badly things were there with people losing their minds each and every day.
It is hard to believe that I was put there by the wrong doings of the Ministry of Magic, because they had believe that I was the one to destroy the thirteen muggles and my best friend (or who I had thought was a best friend.) Those stupid grits up there in the ministry haven't even given me a proper trail. Oh wait! Let me re-phase that. I DIDN"T even get a trail at all, and was sent straight to that Hellish place.
The people, wait I mean creatures, which guard Azkaban are foul and ungodliness for what they do their victims that are sent there to do their time. The creatures that I am talking about are Dementors. These dementors are known to most people in our community as "destroyers of happiness", because that is exacting what they do. They are sightless fends that would prey on the people there in prison on their happy memories and turning them into nothingness. They always love it when someone new comes in, because they all gather around that cell sucking the very soul right out of you. You can't get away from it, because there is no where to run, no place to hide. They know that you are right there in front of them even if they can't see you. They break down the very hope and/or faith that you have about getting out of there.
I was able to maintain a stable state of mind knowing that I wasn't the one accountable for killing those people on the night after Lily and James Potter were killed. I would have die before telling Lord Voldemort the whereabouts of them. Though foolishly, I had stepped out of line and had passed the secret keeper job over to Peter Pettigrew a.k.a. Wormtail. I had thought that since we were very close with the Potters he could handle being the secret-keeper for them, because I just couldn't handle it anymore. Though of course that all failed. I should have known that he had gone over to the Dark Side and had joined the Death Eaters. I should have known. Now it is too late, and Lily and James Potter are no more. May they Rest In Peace.
I finally had escaped when I saw that Peter Pettigrew was still alive. Though I couldn't really believe my eyes, because it just couldn't be true, or could it? I had found out by getting a newspaper from Crouch Sr., when he was passing though the jail checking on the very creatures that patrol the place. I had recognized that rat Ron, the one that was sitting on your shoulder while you and your family was traveling through Egypt and that is when I know that I had to get out of there to actually do the crime that I was put in Azkaban for. Then I could go peacefully.
So I transformed myself into the dog that you saw Harry before you had called on the Knight Bus for help that night in which you had blown up your Aunt. Though I must say that was pretty funny if you ask me. When they came by to serve us what they called food I made my escape, and swam across to England, and up to Hogwarts to wait for Peter Pettigrew.
That is it you three. I just hope now that I am cleared one day so that I don't have to stay at the foulsome place that I had once called home.
End Note: Unfortunally for Mr. Sirius Black that chance never came. He was killed when he and the Order went to help Harry, Ron, Neville, Hermione, Ginny, and Luna from the Death Eaters at the Ministry. Harry had believe that the Dark Lord had his godfather and went after him. While in the Room of Mystery Sirius was hit with a Stunning Spell that cast by Bellatrix Black Lestrange, his cousin who is a Death Eater.